Congress accused of vote theft in Punjab, Kejriwal said – If we had wanted, we would have turned the tables in many places by calling SDM.

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has won the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections in Punjab. AAP has emerged as the largest party with a bumper victory in these election results. Congress has raised questions on the results. Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Wadding termed AAP’s victory as a stolen mandate. AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal has hit back on this. He said on Thursday that clean and fair elections were held in the state. Congress won at many places by 3 and 5 votes. If we had wanted, we could have turned the tables by calling the SDM. What could be a better proof of clean and fair elections than this?

Arvind Kejriwal said, there is pro-incumbency in Punjab. People of Punjab are happy with the work of CM Mann. The state government is doing good work. He said, the public has approved the work of the government. No one can question the results. Clean and fair elections have been held. Videography has been done.

AAP convenor said, 580 seats were won by less than 100 votes. Out of these, AAP has won 261 seats and the opposition has won 319 seats. If we had misused the machinery, opposition seats would also have been in our account. Arvind Kejriwal said that Congress won one seat by 5 votes. What could be a better proof of clean and fair elections than this? On many seats, Congress has won by 3 and even 4 votes. There was a need to make a call to the SDM. It is not a difficult task for the ruling party to get 1 vote or 5 votes on its side.

What did Congress say on the results?

Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Wadding termed the bumper victory of AAP as a stolen mandate. He said that AAP Punjab may be enjoying a stolen victory in the rural mandate, but it knows very well where it stands. We know. They know. The people of Punjab know. He has not achieved a big victory in the elections, he has stolen these elections.

48 percent voting took place

In Punjab, 48 percent voters had exercised their franchise in the voting held on December 14 to elect members from 347 areas of 22 District Councils and 2,838 areas of 153 Panchayat Samitis. The fate of more than 9,000 candidates was decided in these elections. In the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections, candidates from all major political parties including AAP, Congress, SAD and BJP contested on party symbols.

Opposition parties Congress and SAD had accused the ruling AAP of blatant rigging during the voting on December 14. Even before this, both the parties had accused Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s government of misusing the government machinery to stop their candidates from filing nominations and getting their nominations rejected.